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Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 10:59:39 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Johan Henriksson <johan DOT he AT telia DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: txi312b vs txi390b ?
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On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Johan Henriksson wrote:

> >txi 3.12 is newer than txi 3.9
> >
> 
> Seems very stupid.

Please refrain from calling other people stupid, especially when they
do all this free service for you.  Everybody is entitled to make a
mistake here and there without being called names (i this is at all a
mistake).

>  Why not use real versionnumbers (ie 3.12, 3.09)?

We could call the files texinfo-3.9.zip and texinfo-3.12.zip, but then
people who unzip them on plain DOS would have problems with these
names.

If we want to stick to DOS 8+3 limitations, even txi39b.zip as opposed
to txi312b.zip is ambiguous.  It's not an easy problem to solve.

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